Oculus Rift

[MechDeus]

I can't wait until we're all using a VR headset unwittingly doing our best impressions of Ray Charles.

[Frogacuda]

This is less a comment on oculus than some sociology, but I think it's worth thinking on: Do we need a device that will makes us even more disconnected from being alive? You strap this on and you're no longer part of the conversation in the room. You're furniture.

A couch potato, if you will? Surely this sort of concern is absolutely new territory.

[sedition]

I can't wait until we're all using a VR headset unwittingly doing our best impressions of Ray Charles.

all they need, and Oculus did show off a prototype photo in a presentation, is a VR unit with two out facing stereoscopic cameras that would broadcast to the display.

You could then switch between VR and AR seemlessly and we'd all be wearing them everywhere. Suck it furniture!!

[kedawa]

I can't imagine VR becoming mainstream any time soon.
It will be the hot new toy until the novelty wears off, and then become dormant again until the technology advances enough to make it worth it for someone to give it another go.

[Yoshi]

[YellerDog]

Oh boy first person platforming.

VR demos really aren't much better than Dactyl Nightmare, are they?

[Mzo]

I don't think gauging depth will be as big of a problem in VR. Looks like it could be fun.

[kedawa]

Jumping Flash! clone plz.

[FirstBlood]

Yeah really, being able to... ya know, look down whenever you want would work really well for that sorta thing.
Also some fakeass sonic rollercoaster would have been so much better than the shit they showed us at pax.

Shit. Jumping flash. YES.

[bbobb]

Yeah that PAX demo was fucking horrible.

I still want one though after trying it.